Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 08, 2018

Calvin will never trust his hands… for anything.

Soon, Dad is gonna regret reading Hamster Huey to Calvin.

Great, Dad…now you’re going to have to do more exciting stories to keep Calvin’s interest…

Too bad you can only do it once, Dad. Calvin won’t fall for it a second time!

Calvin is really gullible.

The first appearance of Hamster Huey?!? This is indeed an auspicious occasion.

Dear Old Dad had me laughing hard at that one.

3rd row, 2nd panel from left – proof positive Calvin is Truly Spaceman Spiff: He’s dreaming of stars and planets.

You’ve gotta hand it to dad – he figured it out!

Remember thing? That hand from The Addams family? What would Calvin’s reaction be I wonder???

Last I remember it was hanging out of some ones car trunk.

Now I’m thinking of Ash’s hand in the first season of Ash, Vs. Evil Dead

The apple sure didn’t fall far from the tree, did it. No doubt in my mind who sired Calvin…

Looney Tunes eyes for Calvin in 6th panel

“The hand was disembodied… they canceled its membership.”

I remember reading that story in a anthology, it did not end well..

hahahaha- Dad’s face and Calvin’s reaction. So perfect. Watterson is the BEST at comic timing.

Mom is going to make Dad pay for this one.

Where was Hobbes? He could’ve protected Calvin.

" The Beast with Five Fingers " was just on TCM last week.

Calvin wanted a scary story—-until it became a little too real!

Dad was at the top of his game this time.

Go, Dad. Get in your shots while you can. Calvin will become a teen one day.

In this modern day world of helicopter parents and participation awards, are dad’s even allowed to do things like this anymore? Don’t we have to worry about traumatizing the child? My dad used to put on a sheet, and walk around our front yard on Halloween . . . until I got old enough to notice that the ghost was wearing his bedroom slippers. And, heck, I remember the time my friend Linda’s father popped out of their basement Bilco doors wearing a gas mask. I can still hear the screams of all the neighbor kids who were there that day (not to mention the one girl who peed herself.) Good times. Good times.

The Creeping Hand 1963 kept me up a few nights when I was a kid. My brother and I were too scared to even dangle our feet over the bed for fear of being grabbed. We also decided Cheryl, the babysitter who took us to the drive-in with her boyfriend, was the best ever.

Psychology finally occurs to Dad.

When my kids were small I used to do stuff like that all the time. After all, isn’t that why we had them!

Dad’s getting even with Calvin for breaking his binoculars and dropping all his stuff in the lake.

Hope dads benefit package has some room for therapy. I did this to one of my kids. And yes, we had benefits.

For another fine variation on the theme, see the first episode of the rebooted Doctor Who.

“The slay hand” our favorite campfire story as a Boy Scout.

See Bill Murray in ‘Meatballs.’

An all-time favorite.

Explains why Calvin made all those decapitated snowmen years later.

Good one Dad.

You gotta give Calvin’s Dad a hand, he pulled one over on Calvin that time.

Interesting that Hobbes isn’t in bed with Calvin at all.

“An animated TV show”? Pretty highfalutin’ phrase for a cartoon.

Well played, Calvin’s dad. Like T said above, I sense some therapy in Calvin’s future.

Good one.

Best ever.

Why would Calvin want a story adapted from TV? It takes away the surprise.

I can only recall one other time that Calvin fainted dead away like this, back when he was being examined by a doctor who joked how much the examination was going to hurt but Calvin thought he was serious. Anyone remember any other instances of him passing out?

Reminds me of the Second City TV Shock Theatre Rats skit. Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOtXaG4uxE

Still one of my all-time favorites.

I guess they can’t really wonder where Calvin gets it …

a triple take is crazy!